MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2003
1428 GMT (10:28 a.m. EDT)

It will be another day before the Mars Exploration Rover "Spirit" begins its journey to the Red Planet. Liftoff has been scrubbed for today due to weather.

"Similar weather condition as experienced in yesterday's launch attempt are beginning and it is anticipated that thunderstorm conditions could be present in the launch pad vicinity by the launch time at 2 p.m.," NASA spokesman George Diller said in explaining the reason for today's postponement.

The launch is now targeted to occur at 1:58:47 p.m. EDT (1758:47 GMT) on Tuesday.

Crossing my fingers for tomorrow - Vince